JP2003277611A - Rubbery material and accessory by using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rubbery material/an accessory having a pearly color tone, having a visually recognizable beautiful appearance with desired multiple color-based color, also excellent in mechanical characteristics, wearing property on a human body, or the like. <P>SOLUTION: The rubbery material 1 having a structure constituted as capable of exhibiting the pearly color tone and a combination of optional basic colors is obtained by adding and arranging a particle-shaped pearly pigment 3 obtained by coating titanium oxide or iron oxide on the outer periphery of mica 4 in a layer of a silicone rubber base material 2 with optical properties, and the accessory consisting of the rubbery material 1 such as a bracelet B is also provided. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to accessories, clothing,
The present invention relates to a rubber material that can be used as a material for various molded products such as various bands, various sheets, ropes, threads, and various boards, and personal accessories such as bracelets, necklaces and rings.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Rubber materials are widely used as constituent materials for various objects in a wide variety of fields, and as a recent technical trend, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-43558 discloses "medical effects.
There is a proposal of "rubber elastic body / foamed rubber elastic body having a health effect". On the other hand, a bracelet that is widely used as an accessory is a technical trend in recent years, and there is a proposal of "structure having medical and health effects" disclosed in JP-A-6-312026 or 2001-87017 / 314213.

[0003]

The recent technical tendency of the conventional rubber material and bracelet is to improve the medical effect and health effect by wearing various articles and bracelets made of the rubber material on the human body. Although it has a purposeful effect, it lacks the pursuit of aesthetic performance based on its unique structure and physical properties as a material.

In view of the above technical tendency of the prior art, the present invention provides a rubber material excellent in aesthetic performance and physical properties based on its unique structure, and an accessory such as a bracelet used for the rubber material.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention for solving the above-mentioned technical problems is "a granular material formed by coating titanium oxide or iron oxide on the outer periphery of mica in a layer of a base material of a light-transmitting silicone rubber. "Rubber material characterized by a structure in which a pearl pigment is added and arranged so that a pearl color tone can be emitted in an arbitrary basic color." It is made of accessories such as bracelets, rings, necklaces, etc.

That is, the rubber material of the present invention having the above-mentioned constitution is
"Fine particles of known pearl pigment" are added to the base material layer of silicone rubber, which has excellent physical properties such as weather resistance, and reflected by the input light of the pearl pigment to produce "pearl color tone (like natural pearl pigment. And a variety of basic colors (basic color) "to form a beautiful achromatic element, and the intrinsic properties of the pearl pigment improve the mechanical strength of the tensile strength of the material, and increase the yellow color. It is characterized by a technical idea aimed at improving various physical properties such as deterioration prevention, heat resistance, and high thermal conductivity.

As the rubber material having the above structure, a light-transmitting dimethyl silicone rubber (preferably methylphenyl silicone rubber) including transparency and translucency such as milky white is used (methylphenyl silicone rubber is a rubber. With respect to "trace radiation generated by minerals containing rare elements" contained in quality materials, the higher the content of phenyl groups, the smaller the change in hardness and the more stable the rubber properties. From the technical intent of further improving the color discharge performance, the flat pearlescent pigment in the base material is formed into a uniform aligned alignment orientation substantially parallel to the surface of the base material, or the luminescent pigment in the base material is -A mode in which a color pigment "a mineral containing a rare element" or the like is added.

The accessory of the present invention such as a bracelet made of the rubber material of the present invention is a main body of a ring body for the purpose of further improving the action and effect peculiar to the rubber material of the present invention. "Providing a concavo-convex rib in which concavities and convexities are alternately continuous along the inner periphery of the ring body""Forming spiral ribs integrally raised or wound around the outer periphery of the ring body""Pearl color tone / basic color A mode in which a plurality of different ring element bodies are combined ", a mode in which an outer radiating layer made of the rubber material of the present invention is provided on the outer periphery of a core ring body such as silicone rubber" is adopted.

[0009]

The above rubber material of the present invention is provided with "a coating of titanium oxide or iron oxide on the mica nucleus on the surface layer of the base material of the light-transmitting silicone rubber""visible in correlation with the thickness of the coating." There is a pearl pigment that emits color reflection light in all wavelength regions of light rays. Therefore, by selecting the specific reflection hue of the pearl pigment, "a pearl pigment having a pearl color tone and an intended basic color emission material" can be obtained. Can be set freely.

Although the base material silicone rubber has a qualitatively poor tensile strength (approximately 3 to 10 kg per square centimeter in a vulcanized state), the pearl pigment titanium oxide added has a high tensile strength. Function as a reinforcing material and improve the mechanical properties of the tensile strength of the material. And since the base material is made of silicone rubber without an antioxidant, it has a unique effect of preventing yellowing of the rubber material over time (the phenolic compound in the antioxidant reacts with titanium oxide of the pearl pigment). Does not cause yellowing).

Since the rubbery material having a structure in which a mineral containing a rare element is added in the above-described embodiment, the negative element generating action and the far infrared ray action are added by the rare element,
When used as a body-worn item, various effects such as nerve regulating action, cell activating action, blood purifying action, bactericidal action and far-infrared heating effect by the negative ions can be enjoyed.

Since the accessory of the present invention such as bracelet, ring, necklace and the like is made of the rubber material having the above-mentioned action as the base material, the visible appearance beauty which radiates the pearl color tone with the various basic colors described above. It is a high-quality product that has specially improved aesthetic performance as an accessory and is excellent in mechanical properties and body wearability.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION First, a rubber material 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1, Table 1 and Table 2. That is, this rubber material 1 is "accessories such as bracelets, clothes, coats, bands or ropes, threads, etc.
It is used for various purposes such as "various sheets and various boats", and a "plate-shaped mica 4 and titanium oxide (or iron oxide) are added to a base material 2 of transparent or translucent light-transmitting dimethyl silicone rubber. The known pearl pigment 3 of the plate-like fine particles embedded with the coating 5 "having a uniform film thickness of 5" is added to at least the surface portion of the base material 2 at a substantially uniform density and internally arranged in a random posture. There is.

The surface of the rubber material 1 has a pearl color tone which is very similar to that of natural pearl, by the "complex light dispersion / reflection process based on the input light from the outside" by the pearl pigment 3 group, and It has a structure capable of radiating emitted light of visible light having a color correlated with the film thickness T of the coating 5.

That is (see FIG. 1B), the pearl pigment 3 is
Correlation with the thickness T of the coating 5 causes the wavelength of the reflected light L2 due to the input light L1 to change variously in the entire visible light region such as red and green. Surface reflection / bottom reflection of mica 4 / bottom reflection of coating 5 ”, multiple diversified dispersions / reflections are formed, and interference fringes due to them appear visually, and the pearl pigment 3 in the base material 2 This is a light reflection process in which a random posture is exhibited, the above-described multiple reflections / light dispersions are individually different, and the reflection brightness changes in a complicated and various manner.

The surface of the rubber material 1 synthesized by the above-mentioned reflection process has a chromatic appearance, and the surface color is based on "visible light color of a specified wavelength correlating with the thickness of the film thickness T" The surface is in the form of color saturation.

On the other hand, the rubber material 1 shown in FIG. 1 (D) is the same as the rubber material 1 in which the pearl pigment 3 is added, but the base material 2
The group of pearl pigments 3 has a uniformed orientation in which the pearl pigments 3 have a substantially parallel orientation with the surface of the base material 2. In this form, since the reflected light of the pearl pigment 3 becomes uniform, the pearl color tone of the rubber material 1 becomes much clearer than that of the random orientation of FIG. 1 (A).

Incidentally, this uniform orientation posture means that the pearl pigment 3
・ When the silicone rubber (raw rubber) and the vulcanizing agent are kneaded and flowed into the molding die for heat molding, the mold cavity has a peripheral surface of the molding cavity that is a mirror surface to improve the fluidity of the inflow material. The pearl pigment 3 in the form of a flat plate, which is blended by the flow of the inflow material when it is poured into the mold, is automatically placed in a position in which the flow resistance is small, that is, in a "position parallel to the peripheral surface of the cavity". It is molded by a construction method that utilizes a uniform restriction.

In this embodiment, "matrix 2 is semitransparent dimethyl silicone rubber" and pearl pigment 3 is "Iriodin (registered trademark) manufactured by Merck Japan Co., Ltd." As illustrated in 2, the titanium oxide having a different area ratio of titanium oxide (area ratio of titanium oxide to the cross-sectional area of the pearl pigment 3) is selected and used according to the intended “color of reflected light / pearl tone”. . And this rubber material 1 is a sheet with a thickness according to the application.
It is formed into an arbitrary shape such as a linear shape.

[0020]

[Table 1]

[0021]

[Table 2]

In the rubber material 1 of this embodiment, a known phosphorescent pigment or a coloring pigment, or both are added to the base material 2 to add a phosphorescent property, or the above-mentioned specific color / pearl. A mode for preventing deterioration of color and deterioration of rubber due to improvement of ultraviolet resistance of color tone is provided.

Specifically, the base material 2 of the above-mentioned embodiment is prepared by saying that "alkaline earth aluminate is formed as a host crystal, europium (EU) is an activator, and dysprosium (DY) or neodymium (Nd) is an activator. 5 to 20% by weight of the phosphor (for example, Luminova (registered trademark) manufactured by Nemoto Special Chemical Co., Ltd.) granular material (approximately 10 to 50 micron size) is added and mixed.

When a coloring pigment is added, the amount of the coloring material is limited to a level that does not impair the transparency of the base material 2, and a transparent coloring agent such as phthalocyanine / quinacridone red is preferable.
With this color pigment addition form, the polychromaticity of the rubber material 1 is further improved.

The rubber material 1 of the above embodiment provides the rubber material having the above-mentioned effects and excellent in aesthetic performance, weather resistance and mechanical properties. It can be effectively used in a wide range of fields as materials for materials, materials for bands, ropes, threads, etc., and materials to which the above-mentioned phosphorescent pigment is added, as luminous materials for luminescent materials.

That is, supplementally, the silicone rubber has a tensile strength of about 15% to 2 only by adding 1% of a pearl pigment.
There is a qualitative effect of improving by 0% (an adsorption layer of rubber molecules is formed on the surface of titanium oxide that covers the surface of the mica of the core of the pearl pigment,
Since the intermolecular attractive force in the adsorption layer brings about the above improvement, the rubber material 1 has excellent mechanical properties,
It can be effectively utilized as a constituent material of the various objects.

Next, an example of the bracelet of the present invention, which is a typical application example of the rubber material 1 of the above embodiment, will be described with reference to FIGS. First, what is shown in FIG. 2 is formed into “a bracelet B of an endless ring having a perfect circular cross section” by the rubber material 1 of the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 things "
Or "of pearl pigment 3 having iron oxide coating 5"
Alternatively, it has a structure in which at least one of mineral, tourmaline, and far-infrared ceramics containing rare elements is added to the base material 2 of silicone rubber.

That is, in detail, a half of dimethyl silicone rubber (rubber hardness 22 °) to which 5 to 7% by weight of negative ion ore of "Seranlite (trade name) of Unitika Research Lab (volcanic gray)" is added Transparent base material 2
The endless ring bracelet B is formed by the rubber material 1 in which "1-5 wt% of pearl pigment" and 1 wt% of organic pigment (opaque) are mixed.

The bracelet of the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 has the above-mentioned effect by mixing the pearl pigment 3 and has a circular shape as a whole, so that the direction of the reflected light with respect to the incident light is diversified and various. As a result, the above-mentioned effect of radiating the various basic tones and pearl tones becomes clearer and more prominent.

Since the base material for forming the bracelet is made of silicone rubber, the bracelet has excellent wearability, gas permeability, and thermal conductivity at the time of sweating. The one using pearl pigment 3 has good heat retention, and the one adding minerals containing rare elements to the base material silicone rubber has "an autonomic nerve regulating action, cell activation action, bactericidal action, far infrared ray by negative ions". There is an auxiliary effect of "warming effect by", and it becomes a special high quality bracelet than the conventional resin and metal ones.

Next, in the bracelet B shown in FIG. 3, in the bracelet 1 of the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the main body portion of the bracelet 1 is an uneven rib 9 in which a convex portion 7 and a concave portion 8 are continuous in a wavy shape along the inner periphery of the main body 10. It is integrally formed of the same material as. In the embodiment of FIG. 3, the convex portion 7 presses against the skin when worn on the human body and functions as a locking stopper, so that the mounting and locking property is improved, and the convex portion 7 becomes a "so-called acupoint" of the skin. By locking, there is a unique effect that "health effect by negative ions" can be enjoyed.

The structure shown in FIG. 4 has a structure in which a spiral rib 12 made of the same material as that of the main body 10 is integrally raised on the main body 10 of the same bracelet 1 as in the embodiment of FIG. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, when the bracelet B is slid or rotated along the arm when worn on the arm, the spiral rib 12 rubs the skin, thereby promoting the blood circulation and the specific action such as the negative ion effect. Can be enjoyed.

3 and 4, the uneven ribs 9 and the spiral ribs 12 are provided to reduce direct contact of the body 10 with the human skin and clothes, so that "rubbing wear and human body during wear" can be reduced. It has a unique effect of maintaining the unique pearl color tone for a long period of time without damaging the appearance luster due to "fouling of oils and fats."

On the other hand, the bracelet B shown in FIGS. 5A, 5B and 5C is also made of the same rubber material as in the embodiment of FIG. 1, and the basic color is “for example, reddish and greenish”.
The bracelet element bodies 11 of two different colors are arranged side by side. In addition, 13 and 14 in the figure are an annular groove and an annular protrusion that fit and connect the two bracelet elements 11.

In the present embodiment, since the two colors have different basic colors, the known color complementary effect has a unique effect that the visible color of the bracelet B stands out as "red on a green background".

On the other hand, the bracelet B shown in FIG. 5 (D) is a single piece by embedding the "core ring body 15 made of silicone rubber containing tourmaline" with the outer radiating layer 16 made of the rubber material 1 of the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 formed into a circular cross-section ring
It has a layered structure.

The bracelet B shown in FIG. 5 (D) prevents "a bad effect of impairing the pearl color tone due to the darkening of the silicone rubber and the cloudiness of the silicone rubber" when tourmaline (tourmaline) is added to the silicone rubber. The appearance and aesthetics can be stably ensured by the outer layer 16 for color saturation. When the core ring body 15 is formed of "rubber material 1 in which tourmaline is added to that of FIG. 1 embodiment", the double diametrical action of the core ring body 15 and the chromatic outer layer 16 is polymerized, which is peculiar. With a pearly tone,
You can enjoy the health and treatment effects of tourmaline.

This two-layer structure has a known method of dipping (immersion of a preformed core ring into a solution of the rubber material 1) and injection molding (two-stage extrusion molding is cut into a predetermined length. Adhesive) / 2-layer extrusion molding (2
The layer is extruded and molded, and is cut by a predetermined length and adhered).

Next, the bracelet B shown in FIG. 6 is formed into a band shape by the rubber material of the present invention, and the band main portion 17 made of the rubber material 1 is connected to both ends of the metal band portion 18 in the middle portion. Band connection parts 19 on both ends
It has a structure with.

Next, one embodiment of the ring / necklace of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. That is, the ring R and the necklace N shown in FIG. 7 both form a body having a circular cross-section endless ring shape with the rubber material 1 of the embodiment of FIG. 1, and the spiral rib 1 illustrated in FIG.
The necklace N is elastically expanded and contracted so that it can be attached to and detached from the neck.

The accessories of the ring R and the necklace N are
It has the same effect as the bracelet B, and is of high quality with excellent aesthetic performance and wearability on the body. The ring R / necklace N of the present invention using the rubber material 1 is not limited to the shape shown in FIG. 7 and may change to other shapes as a ring / necklace.

Furthermore, the accessory of the present invention is not limited to the ring body / band body bracelet / ring / necklace exemplified above, but is also made of the rubber material of the present invention.
Includes a variety of accessories including flat shapes such as brooches, hair ornaments, earrings, tie ornaments.

[0043]

Industrial Applicability As described above, the rubber material of the present invention has "a variety of base colors that can be freely selected and has a pearl color tone", and has excellent appearance performance and good mechanical properties. It is possible to provide high-quality rubber material that can be effectively used in. The accessory such as a bracelet of the present invention provides a useful use of the rubber material of the present invention, and further improves the aesthetic performance and wearability of the accessory. There are various effects described above.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a rubber material of the present invention,
(A) and (D) are sectional views for explaining the structure, (B) is a sectional view for the pearl pigment, and (C) is a sectional view for explaining the action.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the bracelet of the invention,
(A) is a front view thereof, (B) is a central sectional view thereof, (C)
Is a partially enlarged view of the explanation

FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the bracelet of the present invention,
(A) is its front view, (B) is its central sectional view

FIG. 4 shows another embodiment of the bracelet of the present invention,
(A) is its front view, (B) is its side view

FIG. 5 shows another embodiment of the bracelet of the present invention,
(A) (B) (C) (D) is a partial central cross-sectional view showing the structure

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the bracelet of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a front view of an embodiment of a ring / necklace of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 rubber material 2 base material 3 pearl pigment 4 mica 5 coating 7 convex 8 recess 9 uneven rib 10 bracelet body 11 bracelet body 12 spiral ribs 15 Nuclear ring body 17 band main part B bracelet N necklace R ring

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Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A granular pearl pigment formed by coating titanium oxide or iron oxide on the outer periphery of mica is provided in a layer of a base material of a light-transmitting silicone rubber, and a pearl color tone is formed to give an arbitrary base color. A rubber material characterized by a structure that allows the color to be emitted. 2. The plate-shaped pearl pigment in the layer of the base material is arranged in a uniform posture substantially parallel to the surface of the base material.
Rubber material. 3. A phosphorescent pigment
The rubber material according to claim 1 or 2, wherein at least one coloring pigment is added. 4. The rubber material according to claim 1, wherein at least one of minerals containing rare elements and tourmaline / far infrared ceramics is added to the base material layer. 5. An accessory according to any one of claims 1 to 4, which is made of a rubber material. 6. The accessory according to claim 5, wherein a concave-convex rib in which convex portions and concave portions are alternately continuous is provided along the inner circumference of the ring body. 7. The accessory according to claim 5, wherein a spiral rib is provided on the outer circumference of the ring body. 8. The accessory according to any one of claims 5 to 7, comprising a combination of a plurality of ring bodies having different basic colors. 9. The nuclear ring body is provided with an outer radiating layer made of the rubber material according to any one of claims 1 to 4.
~ The accessory according to claim 8.